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I want to have the ability for users to select what rss feeds they want on the main page, in the center section based upon ones that I set up.. any thoughts on this.. im trying out RSSDisplay but I dont see how to do this..

I'm looking for the same functionality myself, but so far haven't found it. What I'd really like to do is add a list of rss feeds somewhere, then, in the "Edit your home page" section, have a page where people can choose which RSS feeds show up on their personal home page ala My.Yahoo or DailyRotation.

Does any such thing exist?

And if not, can someone throw one together?

myheadlines has a feature named user subscriptions it's at jmagar.com

I'm trying it, but it doesn't seem to be working with the latest greatest version of PostNuke... I suppose I might be doing something wrong, but it's kinda hard to mess up since the instructions are so easy...

Do you know of someone who has it working with 0.7.5 who might be able to help me out at all?

[edit](Actual problem description:)
OK, so I went to mysite.com/index.php?modules=MyHeadlines as it says to do in the instructions so that I can add the necessary info to the database. There's supposed to be an "Import" section under "Administration." Unfortunately, I can't get the "Administration" option/tree/whatever to expand so that I can get to that "Import" feature...

[edit2]What I'm picturing:
When someone goes to "My Account" and clicks on the link to "Edit your home page," wouldn't it be cool if they could actually *DO* something useful there???

In the admin modules or whatever, there'd be something for making a list of what blocks are available for each column, along with a setting for which blocks are enabled and disabled for unregistered users and what blocks are enabled and disabled when a user logs in by default.

Are there any enterprising authors who think that such a feature would be relatively easy to do? I thought something like that would have been built into PN, since there's already a link labeled "Edit your home page," but it doesn't let you edit very much of it...

I usually just edit my post instead of replying to myself, but perhaps I should make a new thread about having user-selectable boxes? It's not the same as having user-selectable RSS feeds...

works on my site just fine.
I never even delved into the homepage thing and yet I want to....hmmm. I've played around with so much and I missed that? Geesh. This is really a sharp module isn't it? Ever see the other RSS modules? If only all those guys could put their heads together we'd have one heckuva module.
Tip/Warning:This creates a strain on your database quick if you're not smart about it. I wasn't. I added a million rss files(or so it seems) and I wanted them to update often, on top of that I wanted others to be able to put "my" feeds on their sites and....WOW did that make my server(host) busy. With thought like "Do I really need this to check for updates every day, week, 12 hours?" etc you can really minimize the strain. Plus watch the cache too.
Import? Hmmm it worked for me one sec

looking at 4_2_9 version
OK I know what you mean. Dopey thought but, log in to your site and checkoff "remember me" checkbox. You should definitely be able to expand the administration link (in the my headlines module NOT in the PN admin section)
If that doesn't work, email Mike from that site, he will help. very nice guy. Please post "the fix" here. I'm gonna look into that homepage stuff now.

where the heck is that homepage thing? I don't see it on my site or at jmagar

it's on sourceforge. You can get there via jmagar.
I had the same problem with myheadlines, if i remeber correctly it needs a PHP setting "register_globals" turned on.

It'd be nice if someone would make this PN compliant
http://www.jmagar.com/index.php?y=0&myh=user&myh_op=showLink&myh_link=1
Automatic Article Author: This is a hack using some the the core MyHeadlines objects. It is a scraper based module that will automagically add stories to the PHPNuke 6.x database. No Support is available for this tool, but since over a year has passed, my agreement with the client has expired and this can enter the public domain.

I don't see it at sourceforge. RFE, Patches, forum, homepage(link back to jmagar)...lil help please

This thread is a little all over the map. Here's what I see:

1) The graphic in this thread is not available as a module, but instead is a representation of a wish list item. It would be cool to do it this way. But sadly nobody has done it...

2) The Automatic Article Author is a module for PHPNuke, and is quite fragile, and is more useful as an example of how to create a custom module out of MyHeadlines pieces. The point of AAA is to add both new topics and new stories to the Nuke Database as if the site admin had posted them himself. Basically it leaches stories and re-posts them on the front page natively within PHPNuke. It was more about branding than it was about RSS Aggregation. The customer wanted Fark, and some other similar wacky news to be posed as if he had discovered it himself... SO we built some scrapers, and custom DB inserts into the Nuke database, and... well... you get AAA.

3) MyHeadlines maintains users subscriptions based on cookie or account login depending on registered or anonymous. The user subscriptions are normally viewed in the Myheadlines module, but often people want the user subscriptions to appear on the front page (center bottom). I used to have a FAQ on my site with instructions on how to do this. I will post them again below, but first if someone is brave, please try the envolution download on your PN site. It already includes PostNuke-like blocks that may work natively on you PN sites. I've never tried it, but I have been meaning to port them over to PN. I've let things slide too long. PN and others have many new versions I've not tested with, but MyHeadlines is pretty robust and should work with PN 7.x. This simply hasn't been a focus since donations dropped off, I figure people have moved on to other things, and there was no interest... Without further delay here's how we used to create User Subscription Blocks for the front page:

With version 4.0.5 the API has much finer control over content segments... including the Stock Ticker table. I will assume that this application is for Post Nuke v7.1.x or v7.2.x sites

Step 1 - Install v4.x.x.
Step 2 - User Subs Block:
a) Enter the Blocks Administration for your PN71x site
b) Select "New Block"
c) Fill out the New Block Form:
Title = Subscriptions
Block = Core/PHP Script
Position = Left (you can choose center/right if you want)
Language = All (or restrict as you see fit)
d) Commit
e) New form appears with a new Text Area - "Content" Enter
the following code in the Content Box:

//-- Code Snippet Start
global $myhPath;

$myhPath= "modules/MyHeadlines/MyHeadlines";
global $myh_is_included;
if(!isset($myh_is_included)){
include_once("$myhPath/MyHeadlines.php");
}

list($trashcan_var_db_init) = pnDBGetConn();
$headlines = new MyHeadlines;
// Show information for logged in user
$uname = 0;
$uid = 0;
$myh_admin = 0;
if (pnSecAuthAction(0, 'MyHeadlines::', '::', ACCESS_EDIT)) {
$myh_admin=1;
}
if (pnUserLoggedIn()) {
$uname = pnUserGetVar("uname");
$uid = pnUserGetVar("uid");
}
$headlines->MYH_INIT(pnModURL('MyHeadlines', 'user', 'view'), pnConfigGetVar('prefix'), $myh_admin,$uid,$uname,0);

echo $headlines->userSubscriptionScreen();
//-- Code Snippet End

e) Commit. (you should see the user block now)



Cheers,
Mike Agar

I just uploaded the envolution zip file deactivated and activated it. It looks exactly the same

ahh but I have block options now...cool!

user subscriptions block is like the mainpage to myheadlines, it's giant.
I have my left block "hidden" up top, click on the helmet for that. The right block displays horizontally below the main text so just scroll down. I put both in the right block section.
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